From the course: AutoCAD 2014 Essential Training: 5 Working with References
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Building a block library - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2014 Essential Training: 5 Working with References
Building a block library
Whenever you create a block that block is stored in the current drawing. In this lesson we are going to learn how to share blocks such that we can use them in any drawing. On the screen i have some geometry that represents an office floor plan and this vial contains several blocks. If i move up to the block panel and click the Insert icon and then open this menu we can see a listing of all the blocks that exist in this file. Now what if i wanted to insert some of these symbols into another drawing. Let me show you how we could do that. I'll start by closing this dialogue box, and then i'm going to close the current drawing. Take a look at the top of the screen, remember the file name. 0 5 block L I B. I will then create a new file. We'll use the AK template (NOISE) and this is an architectural example, so let's adjust the units quickly. (NOISE) I'll open the application menu. I'll come down to drawing utilities and i'll select units. From here i will open the length type and will set…
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